France is about to conduct its largest in history the trial of sexual abuse against children. While only one person is in Laver – a former surgeon who is accused of rape or sexual abuse of 299 people, mostly children – activists hope that the trial gives other victims and helps to expose other rapists who are long protected by public taboos .
The main thing in the lawsuit is the cold details of the accused Joe Le Scoarnec, which he used to document the decades of sexual abuse.
Le Scouarnec, which is now 74, will face hundreds of victims during a four -month trial, starting Monday in Vanena, in Brittany in the northwest of France. He does not deny the charges, though he says he does not remember everything.
Some survivors have no memory of the attacks, at the time not conscious to move surgery in the hands of the le -arnek.
The trial goes when the activists push the taboos related to sexual abuse. This was allocated recently during the trial Giselle Pelico who was a junior and raped by her ex -husband And dozens of others, a symbol of the fight against France's sexual abuse.
Protecting children and a group of women's rights and the Medical Community Association is considered by the court as an opportunity to confirm that the shame should change the parties.
“It should also point out a new step towards the justice system that listens and protects the victims and firmly convicted aggressors,” the statement reads.
Abuse dated decades
Le Scouarnec threatens up to 20 years in prison for rape, sexual abuse and obscene actions committed with violence or surprise.
The case began in 2017, when a 6-year-old neighbor announced Le Skuarnek, who touched her through the fence, separating their properties.
The next search for his home was discovered by more than 300,000 photos, 650 pediatographic, zaphilic and scatological video files, as well as notebooks where he called himself a pedophile and spoke in detail about his actions, according to the investigation documents.
In 2020, Le Scouarnec was sentenced to 15 years in prison for rape and sexual attack on four children, including two nieces and a young patient.
According to the documents of the investigation, Le Scouarnec recognized the cruel treatment of children dating from 1985-1986. Some cases could not be held accountable because the limitation period expired.
The trial in the Vanass will study rape and other abuse committed from 1989 to 2014 for 158 men and 141 women who were on average at 11 years.
The victims were stunned by what happened
According to the documents of the investigation, the doctor sexually treated the boys, and the girls when they were alone in their hospital rooms. His strategy was to mask sexual abuse as a medical act, focusing on young patients who are less recalling what happened.
“I didn't really remember the operation. I remembered the postoperation, a surgeon who was very sneaky,” – one of the victims, Amel Lewka, recalled his time at the age of 9 in 1991. Much, but I didn't think something like this happened during this operation. “
In years, she described the feeling of the broken when she found out her name appeared in the Notebook Le Scouarnec.
“It was the beginning of the life, and then it was the beginning of the descent to hell when I was leaving the lawyer,” she said. “I felt that I lost control of everything. I wasn't crazy, but now I had to face the truth of what happened.”
She also described the emotional fee for the opening.
“I fell into a deep depression … My family tried to help, but I felt alone,” she said.
The Associated Press does not call people who say they have undergone sexual attacks if they do not agree to determine them or decide to tell their stories publicly.
La Scouarnec Thibaut kurzawa lawyer told the Sud-Ost newspaper that his client will “answer the judges' questions” if he decided to “confront reality”.
Activists want it to be a public call for waking up
The case could find out much earlier. Le Scouarnec was already convicted in 2005 for possession and import of children's pornography and sentenced to four months of conditional prison.
Despite this, he was appointed as a hospital next year. Due to the delay in processing the conviction requested by the Ministry of Health at the time, she did not include any mentions of his past offenses.
Even after reporting their conviction, health care authorities and hospitals did not disciplinary.
Some children's defense groups have joined the trial as civilian parties. The L'Efant Bleu Association's lawyer, Jean-Cristof Boer, said one of the key goals is “doing anything, perhaps to change the legal base … to prevent a similar situation again.”
An independent commission on incest and sexual violence against children called for “major cultural changes”.
“The career of the hard treatment of children is built not by monsters, but by all the consistent silence of witnesses,” the statement reads. “Every witness's duty to take measures, and especially every professional, who holds the position of responsibility in the field of health, administrative or court.”